Give Aways / Homeschool

I know with school nearing a close for many of you, you’re wondering what you’re going to do so your kiddos don’t forget all those precious tidbits you so carefully lodged in their brains over the course of the year. While I don’t plan anything super hard core for summer (we all need a break, me included!) I do keep the kids reading over the summer, mostly fun books. They get to pick what they want to read and as long as it’s appropriate for them, that’s fine.

Just to keep all of the other subjects fresh in their minds, we also do some activities out of the Carson Dellosa Summer Bridge activity books! They’re literally ZERO planning on my part, and great for keeping kids skills fresh over the summer.

Keeping up with your students reading, math, and other basic skills over the long summer break is important. I’m not sure if this happens to your kids, but it seems like a few weeks after school is out my kids seem to forget everything they’ve learned the previous year.

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Depending on the day, I usually have the kids are do 1 lesson per day out of their workbook. I don’t usually force the issue too much, there tends to be a time each day where they start getting bored, and the Summer Bridge activities are the perfect solution! The great thing about them, is that they’re colorful and fun, so it’s not hard to get them to do a page or two.

Just to make it a little more fun, we use our Educational Insights Smens pens to make it a little bit more fun. They LOVE IT!

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And I kid you not, one of them said “Wow, this is so much more fun than regular school!” and the other came up later in the day and actually asked me if she could do some school in her new workbook! Are you serious? YEAH!

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  2. The upcoming 2012-2013 will be my first year homeschooling my 4 children so I plan to use the summer to prepare us all for the new experience. The plan is for my children to focus mainly on reading throughout the summer with the addition of math facts for my 2 older children (9 and 7). I am an email subscriber and can not tell you how useful your blog has been to me. It helped me come to the realiztion that this is God’s plan for our family and that I CAN do it! I can’t thank you enough.

    Becky

  4. To help fight summer learning loss we do a lot of reading and we will also work on math daily. We are participating in the summer reading program through the library and plan to play some fun geography games and do science experiments. I want my kids to have fun while learning.

    Simone

  7. We just moved back home after being displaced for a few months, so we are slowly easing back into the partial homeschooling we were doing before. We do Hooked On Phonics, Hooked on Spanish and tons of workbooks. The best summer schooling we do though is reading, reading, reading! We try to read for a couple hours together every day!

    AshHadAns

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